The Associated Press reports that the CIA "thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden... The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time al-Qaida developed a more refined detonation system, U.S. officials said." UPDATE BELOW: The FBI says the public was never in danger. more ›

In 2008, Candidate Barack Obama criticized Hillary Clinton's campaign for creating an ad that invoked Osama Bin Laden and implicitly questioned his readiness for the position. "We already have a President who plays the politics of fear, and we don't need another," his spokesman said at the time. Well, in 2012 the polls are a little tighter than Obama would like them to be, so Fear is again our friend (did you know that he killed Osama bin Laden with his bare hands?) But Republicans are SHOCKED that other politicians might try to scare up votes. more ›

Move over, Occupy May Day actions, there's actually a federal advisory about the May 1st anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death. Newsday reports, "The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Northern Command issued an internal intelligence bulletin late Wednesday stating terrorists would consider an attack on the May 1 anniversary as 'a symbolic victory.'" more ›

Yesterday, the FBI announced a new addition to its Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive List: According to the fed, former D.C. teacher Eric Justin Toth "is wanted for allegedly possessing child pornography in Washington, DC. It is alleged that in June of 2008, pornographic images were found on a school camera that had been in Toth's possession. Toth also allegedly produced child pornography in Maryland. Toth has often been described as a computer 'expert"' and has demonstrated above-average knowledge regarding computers, the use of the Internet, and security awareness. Toth has the ability to integrate into various socio-economic classes, and is an expert at social engineering. He possesses an educational background conducive to gaining employment in fields having a connection to children. Toth may advertise online as a tutor or male nanny." more ›

Until we see the photographic evidence of Osama bin Laden's grisly end that members of Congress were privy to, we're entitled to our theories, man. He could be living in a vault underneath 1 World Trade Center! Or, he could be amassing a zombie army in Afghanistan. The trailer for the brilliantly named Osombie: The Axis of Evil Dead posits just that theory. Watch the bone-biting, machine gun-firing, washboard-ab-flashing, sex in the desert results: more ›

It's a proud day to be an American terror-porn fetishist: an analysis of a DOJ filing by The Atlantic Wire reveals that the Obama administration may be forced to release photos of Osama bin Laden's dead body if "sensitive information" is redacted. The portion of the brief "concedes that there are reasonably segregable, nonexempt portions of the records that are legally required to be disclosed," a former director of the DOJ's Office of Information and Privacy says. Will they still be released "like a wedding album?" more ›

Remember filmmaker Todd Bieber? He found a canister of undeveloped film in Prospect Park after last winter's Blizzageddon, and ended up travelling to Europe to reunite the film with the owner. Now, to coincide with the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Bieber has released a video he took at the WTC the day after Osama bin Laden's death was announced, gauging the reaction of citizens after the death of the man who plotted the 9/11 attacks. Watch below: more ›

A week from the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a MTA bus mechanic has finished a 12-foot replica of the twin towers on the front lawn of his home in the Country Club section of the Bronx. "I made a promise to the victims 10 years ago that if there was something to do for them, I would do it," Matt Galcik tells the Daily News. "This is me keeping my promise." more ›

Rep. Peter King loves himself a good old fashioned controversy-courting witch trial hearing, whether it's on Muslim "radicalization" or pizza tourism. And now he's set his sights on a new target: King is calling for an investigation into the Obama administration to figure out the nature of their collaboration with two Hollywood filmmakers who are making a movie about the hunt for and death of Osama bin Laden. more ›

As more details become available on yesterday's helicopter crash in the Wardak Province of Afghanistan that killed 30 Americans and 8 Afghans, authorities have determined that the aircraft was shot down by insurgents aligned with the Taliban, most-likely with a rocket-propelled grenade. The Times points out, "they could have hardly found a more valuable target," as 22 of the dead were members of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6, the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden in May. However, authorities say that none of the SEALs who were on the bin Laden raid were killed in yesterday's incident, which was the deadliest in the decade-long war in Afghanistan. more ›

File this under news that shouldn't surprise you: according to documents retrieved from his compound after his death, Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were plotting another attack on U.S. soil to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. However the plans never moved passed the discussion phase, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. more ›

Sure, some people believe that Osama Bin Laden was shot and killed by Navy SEAL commandos and then dropped into the ocean. These are the same sort of people who believe that Obama was born in Hawaii and deny the fact that Captain Crunch contains microscopic razor blades to cut the roof of your mouth, flooding your bloodstream with addictive "Crunch ions" developed by the Pope's secret lab at Roswell. But one American hero refuses to believe the "reality's" version of events: treasure-hunting explorer Bill Warren, who is planning to travel to the North Arabian Sea to find Bin Laden's corpse and confirm his death once and for all. more ›

Bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid on May 2, 2011, in Pakistan, telling supporters to "set up an operations room that follows up events and works in parallel ... to save the people that are struggling to bring down their tyrants." more ›

Rep. Peter King told the Daily News that he felt "intense satisfaction" after seeing photos of Osama Bin Laden's corpse taken by Navy SEALs after their raid on bin Laden's Abottabad safehouse. After repeating Senator James Inhofe's description of the brains spilling out of bin Laden's eye socket, King said that the photos themselves were put together "like a wedding album." No word on whether the CIA used those special little scissors to breathe some well-needed whimsy into photographic evidence of the dead terrorist leader. more ›

According to US Intelligence officials, Osama bin Laden wanted to kill President Obama as part of a plot to disrupt the 2012 presidential elections. Officials have been analyzing over one million pages of data recovered during the assault on bin Laden at the start of the month, and they have learned more in the past ten days about him and his operation than in the past 10 years. "I would say this is probably very personal on bin Laden's part, to kill a President that he believes has violated the Muslim faith...He is incensed, inflamed, obsessed about killing the President," said Brad Garrett, a former FBI profiler. more ›

Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) has seen the photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse after U.S. Special Forces raided the Al Qaeda leader's Pakistan hideaway-in-plain-sight and killed him. And Inhofe says they are "grotesque," describing, "Either a bullet, the significant bullet, went through the ear and out the eye socket, or vice versa," and he's generous enough to want everyone else to see dead Bin Laden photographs, too! more ›

New York Congressional Rep. and rumored Faces of Death fan Peter King told Politico that the images of bin Laden's corpse that he and a select group of lawmakers will view at the CIA's Langley headquarters in the coming days will bring some measure of closure to him: "to actually see the person with my own eyes who did it, see him dead…gives me some satisfaction." more ›

As part of a statement he sent to the New York Times, Osama bin Laden's son Omar bin Laden, declared that the killing of his father by US military forces in Pakistan "blatantly violated" international law. Speaking in the "editorial we," bin Laden's son stated that he "always disagreed with our father regarding any violence and always sent messages to our father, that he must change is ways and that no civilians should be attacked under any circumstances." more ›

It seems that the leader of Al Qaeda isn't the only one who's talked to their herbal remedy specialist about Avena. The Daily News went to East Village supplement shop Flower Power and was told that the "herbal viagra" is "one of our most popular items." more ›

An Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish newspaper called Der Tzitung could find itself in legal trouble for removing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from that iconic photo taken in the Situation Room during the Osama bin Laden mission. Clinton and Director for Counterterrorism Audrey Tomason were both airbrushed out of the photo because the newspaper's policy is not to publish any images of women in case they could be considered sexually suggestive. But when you think about it, it's amazing anybody in the State Department can get any work done with Clinton flouncing around the office distracting them with her feminine wiles. more ›

Like so many affluent, 50-something males before him, Osama Bin Laden may have needed a little something extra to ensure that he could have sex. According to NBC News "nearly a dozen drugs" were found in the Abottabad compound after last week's raid, including medicine to treat "ulcers and gastric reflux," a drug to treat high blood pressure, and "Avena syrup," an artificial sweetener that doubles as a "natural Viagra." We knew that the blue pill was our lil' helper in the War on Terror, but it appears it was a double agent. more ›

President Obama met with the members of the elite Navy SEAL unit that executed the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound and killed the terrorist leader, before giving a speech to the soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, CBS reports. The meeting, which took place behind closed doors, was held so that the president could "offer his personal admiration and gratitude for our servicemembers." The president also gave the SEALs the Presidential Unit Citation, which is "the highest such honor that can be given to a unit." It's unclear whether the "war dog" received a citation as well. more ›

We briefly noted yesterday that a 23-year-old business student at NYU made over $100,000 in two days selling t-shirts that trumpeted the death of Osama Bin Laden. But now CBS is reporting that the budding entrepreneur, Maurice Harary, had a change of heart, and is refunding all of the proceeds: "Celebrating over the death of someone, whoever it is, is evil in my eyes." No word on whether the newly-enlightened Harary plans to confiscate every Che Guevara shirt at NYU. more ›